Quotes About Government

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

The economic implications of the abduction phenomenon are inseparable from the political ones.

am often asked why, if UFOs and abductions are real, the spaceships do not show up in more obvious form. "Why don't they land on the White House lawn?" is the reigning cliché.

The most popular answer to this question among those who take the phenomenon seriously is that the aliens do not dare to manifest themselves more directly. Government leaders would panic, might attack them, and surely would not know how to avoid scaring the rest of us.

I believe in an America where the separation of Church and State is absolute—where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be a Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote—where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference.

Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.

Webster wrote, that "an individual forming part of a public force, and acting under the authority of his Government, is not to be held answerable" for acts authorized by his sovereign.

The electorate collaborated in its own disenfranchisement. In the public's view, all politicians were corrupt, all civil servants inept, and every government little more than a Mafia plus an army. Once the public had been persuaded to cut the state down to size, the real Mafias took over.

To deal with what a High Federalist claimed was the "army of spies and incendiaries scattered through the continent," two acts authorized the deportation of aliens who were already in the country.44

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.

When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

I being now upright without it, and that too with that righteousness, with which this law speaks well of and approveth; I may not, will not, cannot, dare not, make it my Saviour and Judge, nor suffer it to set up its government in my conscience; for so doing I fall from grace, and Christ doth profit me nothing.22

by the state of the domestic

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.